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Kansas

Agriculture

The tables below offer information about Kansas agriculture from the general agricultural
groups to the more specific commodities or products. The ranking assigned to a given commodity is based on the commodity's
cash receipts; how much money it made.

Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004

As you can see from the table below, with a strong livestock industry, Kansas ranks 7th among the states
for total agricultural production. Kansas one of the top ten agricultural states.

Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004

Product Group

Value ($1,000)

% State total

State rank

All commodities

9,502,727

100.0%

7

Livestock and products

6,420,069

67.6%

5

Crops

3,082,659

32.4%

12

Source: USDA:Economic Research Service

Kansas's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004

This table lists Kansas's top commodities in each of Kansas's two agriculutural groups, livestock and
crops.

Kansas is cattle country with cattle and calves taking the position of top livestock product in the
state accounting for well over 1/2 (59.4%) of Kansas' total agricultural production. Hogs and dairy products are also
valuable Kansas livestock products. Wheat is Kansas' number one crop while corn and soybeans are also very important.

Well over 1/3 (38.4%) of the nation's sorghum grain is produced in Kansas.

Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004

This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of Kansas.

* Commodities at the bottom of the above ranked list of commodities and having no accompanying data would have appeared
within the ranked list of leading commodities, but were excluded to avoid disclosure of confidential information about
individual producers.

Source: USDA:Economic Research Service

The 2004 table above contains information about Kansas agricultural production provided by the
Economic Research Service at the United States Department of Agriculture.

The first column of the table lists the product (commodity).

The second column of the table lists a number representing the dollar value of the product. This number
is not the dollar value of the product. This number represents the dollar value of the product in thousands of dollars.
For example, the number listed for the value of cattle and calves produced in Kansas is 5,643,895. This number represents
a dollar value of $5,643,895,000 (5,643,895 x 1,000): five billion, six hundred and forty-three million, eight hundred and
ninety-five thousand dollars.

The third column of the table lists the percent (part) of the total agricultural value produced in
Kansas. For example, cattle and calves account for 59.4% of Kansas's total agricultural production value. The dollars
generated by the production of these cattle and calves add up to between 1/2 and 2/3 of Kansas's total agricultural
production.

National ranking highlights - 2004

Ranks first in production of sorghum grain (39% of U.S. production).

Ranks first in production of wheat (15% of U.S. production).

Kansas farms and farmland - 2004

Because of different rounding methods (e.g., farm acres given by the National Argriculture Statistics
Service), percentage of farmland per state should be considered a rough estimate.